If marriage is a trade, then what price romance? - Oxford Abridged Short Talks
Theatre was a popular forum for early twentieth-century feminists to challenge romantic ideals of marriage, arguing that it amounted to prostitution when soc...
So, what is any respectably girl brought up to do
but to catch some rich man's fantasy
and get the benefit of his money by marrying him
as if a marriage ceremony made any difference
in the right or the wrong of the thing
Ah, the hypocrisy of the world makes me sick
That's Mrs. Warren from Shaw's 1893 play
Mrs. Warren's profession
She's an ex-prostitute and brothel keeper
and when her Girton educated daughter finds out
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